Irving-based healthcare AI pioneer Pieces Technologies has launched “Pieces in your Pocket,” an advanced phone-based personal assistant for inpatient physicians that “revolutionizes clinical documentation,” the company said.

“We’re creating the first AI clinical assistant that understands how physicians actually think about patient care,” Pieces Founder and CEO Dr. Ruben Amarasingham said in a statement. “Instead of talking to technology, physicians can talk with it about their patients through quick, meaningful interactions.”

Pieces said physicians can use their own mobile device to access the solution, then simply tell it the main points they want in their patient progress note in as short as 30 to 45 seconds. The solution then generates a “fully formed note in the electronic medical record incorporating all of the physician’s key points using its working longitudinal understanding of the patient, the physician’s prior notes and authorship style, and the patient’s current issues and results,” the company said.

Unlike traditional ambient listening solutions from competitors that require physicians to record entire patient encounters, the company says, Pieces in your Pocket “focuses on brief, targeted interactions that respect physicians’ workflow preferences while delivering better documentation outcomes.”

Impactful information over transcription

What distinguishes Pieces in your Pocket from existing ambient solutions is its focus on efficiency over transcription, Pieces said.

To write progress notes, Pieces in your Pocket combines the Pieces comprehension and LLM engines, the company said, with a standard proactive voice to voice or multi-modal response based on user preference. The interactive nature of Pieces in your Pocket will “fundamentally transform how physicians work,” Pieces said.

Building on its successful approach to clinical reasoning and comprehension, as displayed in the autonomous creation of over 10 million inpatient clinical summaries for customers across multiple care settings, safety-net hospitals, quaternary care facilities, academic medical centers, regional hospitals, and pediatric hospitals, Pieces said its new solution moves into the ambient listening space “in a novel way.”

Capturing ‘shorter, impactful interactions’

“What’s different about our approach is that Pieces is not scribing the ambulatory patient encounter,” VP of Engineering Josh Grob said in a statement. “We think shorter, impactful interactions are more effective in the increasingly complex acute care environment.”

Pieces said the system captures new information and events since the last progress note, eliminating copy-forward errors while drawing insights from the entire EMR. It provides real-time documentation improvement suggestions to ensure that notes accurately reflect patient care and status.

The company said that Pieces in your Pocket features built-in alerts that notify physicians of discrepancies and enables seamless querying of patient records.

Last year, the National Cancer Institute within the National Institutes of Health awarded Pieces Technologies a $2 million Small Business Innovation Research contract. The award came six weeks after the company announced a $25 million growth financing round.

Pieces Technologies is a physician-led, AI company that assists care teams in both inpatient and ambulatory settings, empowering clinicians to return their time to the human foundation of medicine.

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